Blessed Blooms

 Blessed Blooms

Blessed Blooms

for the feet

of our 

colorful creator

Blessed Be!

  

I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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My Manchavanna

 

Manchavanna

 - my மஞ்சவண்ணா

 மஞ்சவண்ணா/ மஞ்சநாத்தி

 மஞ்சவண்ணா/ மஞ்சகத்தி /

name -MORINDA TINCTORIA.

family: RUBIACEAE            

நுணா: மஞ்சள்நாறி ?Morinda Pubescens 

தணக்கம்: Morinda angustifolia

Nuna (cousin of Noni) /

வெண்நுணா (நோனி): Morinda Chiripola

Called Ahivah in Maldives/ Ahivah-fushi (the island of Ahivah in Maldives)

Note: நுணாவில் (pond of Nuna) in Jaffna

*{ உடுவில்: pond of Stars?}

Traditional Use: The timber has been used to make legs for beds. Younger branches are flexible &  were dried to use in making bricks. Long & strong Manchavanna branches tied and utilized as wood frames for building up walls & floors for multistoried houses (with clay & local soil/ limestone) 

இதன் மரக்கட்டை மஞ்சள் நிறத்தது, மணமுள்ளது. இரண்டுக்கும் காரணம் இந்தக் கட்டைகளில் உள்ள குவினோன் என்ற வேதிப்பொருள். 

துளிர்,இலை, பழுப்பு, காய், பழம், பட்டை, வேர் ஆகியவை மருத்துவப் பயனுடையது. மருத்துவப் பயன்கள்: வெப்பம் தணிக்கும். வீக்கம் கரைக்கும், மாந்தம், கல்லீரல், மண்ணீரல் கோளாறுகளைத் தீர்க்கும். பசியைத் தூண்டும். தோல் நோயகளைக் குணமாக்கும். துணிகளுக்கு நிறமூட்டும். (Ref: http://mooligaivazam-kuppusamy.blogspot.com/2008/10)   

https://www.hindutamil.in/news/supplements/uyir-moochi/217883-44.html

 Wow! மருந்து வீட்டுக்கு வீடு வேலிகளில் இருக்க  நச்சு ஊசிகளை நம்பும் நிலை எப்படி வந்தது?

My Grandma was right....How did we lose our ancient knowledge?

My Manchavanna

                 - by VeerajaR

You were lost... now found

Really, we were lost not you

You were there always

Ingnored... dismissed 

Even hacked and disposed

How ignorant have we been

But, you dismissed our ignorance

Came out of the earth with vigor

Prolific where others coudn't survive 

Strong as ever your branches

Shadowed the hot sun

And I found you

Your worth

THANK YOU...

My Manchavanna!

You were there marking the north fence boundry of Grandma's. Now I know why my ancestors trusted you... your humble resiliance and vigor!

I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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Kurakkan Iddly

Always Experimenting..... with Ancestral diet - with authentic ingredients. This time made Kurakkan -Venkaya Iddly. Came out bulging... soft and appetizing. Mummy would be proud and Grandma would be very impressed. It's not easy to impress Grandma. She had excelled in studies geting through senoir Metriculation (quoting her terminology). My mummy got that strict decipline from grandma... but,  allowed us freedom to enjoy life within set boundry and goals. We knew our life goals before even knew or alphabets...

My grandma always complaint about people using white flour and thus getting sickly. kurrakkan is what our ancestors used to eat (did not have white flour/wheat was not cultivated in ceylon) and they were so strong - she used to exclaim. 

We had enough chickens free ranching producing good supply of eggs for our famillies use. Grandpa would take 2 half-boiled eggs every day with pepper and salt. At that time we were drinking raw eggs through a pinhole. I used the eggshells to make chineese dolls, Tea-cup sets & eggplants.

Eggs were reaching 20 cents and she was reminiscing the time when she remembered an egg used to be half-a-cent. I did see half-a-cent from grandma's collection. My little child brain pondered... I could have bought so... many Orange candies for the 5 cents that I had in my undiyal (Terracotta piggybank).

Now I reminisce & say as I heard my Grandma say often... 

Those were the Good Old Days!

 I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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Light The Way

 

Light the way - Our Lord

Always... as you have

For us to live the way

You have designed

For us!

I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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Forget Me Not

FORGET ME NOT

East to west from morn till night...

You shall cheer me up!

 

 

I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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Inspired To Inspire

 Be Inspired to Inspire...! 

                      - JoyPoet VeerajaR

I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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Daniel A Hero

 An exemplary Life Celebrated with much Respect & Love for a Community Hero!

I am my Mothers' Daughter.......

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